Saturday the 9th of February 2008

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Finally the big day has arrived ! Within less than 7 hours we will leave for this new adventure trip on White Fang' s footprints in the Alaskan and Canadian Yukon. In the previous days we concentrated very much in the last training runs with Marco and two sleds with eight dogs each. He is very excited and he is acting VERY well with Sebastian' s dogs and this is very important.

Yesterday, after a lot of travel mishappenings, also my brother Armen arrived and after a long night of preparations he is ready for this new challenge. Marco and Armen will start with two separate sleds with 8 dogs around 2 pm from the Start of the Yukon Quest Race on the Chena River downtown. They will be followed by the TV cameramen on snowmobiles in order to cover this trip from the very beginning. I and Armen will alternate on the driving of the sled in order to go by with Marco.

As soon as we will reach some internet points in the remote villages, I will update you at the best of my abilities hoping to ba able to download some very nice photos. A big hug from the always yours Ararad Khatchikian
ararad1@hotmail.com

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